Locking-seal.



l. )ALBERTI SII.

LOCKING SEAL.

APPLICATION FILED Nov.27. I9Is.

Patented July 11, 1916.

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JOSEPH JALBERT, SR., 0F NAUGHTON, ONTARIO, CANADA.

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Application led November 27, 1915.

To all 't0/wm t may concern Be it known that I, Josnrr-r JALBERT, Sr., a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Naughton, Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Locking-Seals; and I do hereby declare that the following 1s a full, clear, and exact description of the 1nvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The present invention refers to the s0- called locking or closing seals for securing the covers of receptacles, doors of railwaycars, sheds, &o., in a certain position and more particularly it consists in the combination of a metallic strip holding the door or the like in the desired position and a seal or lock securing the strip in such position, so that it cannot be changed again but by tearing the strip or breaking the seal.

Another advantage of my new seal consists therein, that, if used in connection with sliding doors in railway cars, it allows to open the sliding-door of the car just a little bit, so that some fresh air can enter the car, while a full opening of the door and a removing of any objects out of the car is prevented.

Further characteristics and advantages of my new railway-seal will be made clear in the course of the detailed specification.

In order to more clearly disclose the construction, operation, and use of the invention, reference should be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of the present application.

rllhroughout the several figures of the drawings like reference characters designate the same parts.

In the drawings: Figure 1 shows in perspective my new closing-seal in open position on an enlarged scale and the front part being out away in order to show the interior parts of the lock; Fig. 2 is a similar view of my locking-seal a few moments before it is perfectly closed; and Fig. 3 shows a modification of a detail.

In the embodiment of my invention which is shown in the Figs. 1 and 2 a small pocket or box 1 has been formed preferably from an iron or steel-sheet, which pocket consists of two longer concave side-walls 2, and 3, converging at their one end so as to only open a small entrance-slot f1, while Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 11, 1916.

Serial No. 63,885.

their other ends are connected by the wall 5, forming the inner end or bottom of the pocket or box 1. Of the two side-walls of the pocket or box 1 only the rear-wall has been shown, that in the front has been removed by cutting the seal for the purpose of showing the interior of the pocket. Two tongues 6, and 7 are pressed out of the two concave walls 2, and 3, so that at different distances from the entrance slot, they project into the interior of the pocket. The pocket or box 1 is inclosed in a block 8 of lead or other suitable material which protects it from being compressed or otherwise deformed, and which at the same time makes the socalled seal more handy for the use. At the side of the entrance slot i a steel-ribbon 9 is fixed and I prefer to put the one end of this ribbon around the three side-walls 2, 3 and 5 of the pocket or box l in order to prevent the melted metal from entering through the out cuts forming` the tongues 6, and 7, into the interior of the pocket or box, when the seal is manufactured. At the other end of the seal-ribbon 9 there is provided a hole or window 10, sufficiently great as to let pass one of the tongues 6, and 7 In using my new seal the steel-ribbon is passed through eyelets, hooks or rings or the like of the two parts to be secured to one with regard to the other, for instance on a door and the frame of the door, and then the end with the hole 10 is introduced into the entrance-slot 4: until it strikes against the inner end or bottom wall 5 of the pocket. If then this end of the ribbon is pulled back, it is caught by the tongue 6 or 7 passing through the window or hole 10, which prevents the ribbon from being drawn out again. The only way for opening the door or getting free again the object, which has been secured, would be by breaking the seal, that means by tearing the end of the ribbon. If the steel-ribbon is not strong enough for pushing it through the slot t into the curved pocket against the resistance of the walls 2 and 3 and the tongues 6 and 7 then its free end or its last part may be reinforced, as it is shown in Fig. 3, where, on the end of the comparatively thin steelribbon 11 with the ordinary hole or window 12, a reinforcing strip 13 is fixed by rivets or hooks 14, pressed out of the one strip and catching the other end.

It is thought that the construction, operation, and use of the invention will be clear from the preceding detailed description.

Changes may be made in the construction, arrangement, and disposition of the several parts of the invention without in any way departing from the eld and scope of the same, and it is meant to include all such `between the tongues, a band having one end wrapped lengthwise about said pocket to close the openings formed by stamping out theaforesaid tongues and having its opposite end provided with an opening to re- Gopies of this patent may be obtained for ceive one of the aforesaid tongues, and a lead block ineasing said pocket and surrounding band.

2. A seal comprising a pocket having a lower concave wall and an upper convex wall, a tongue projecting inwardly from each of said walls and extending in the same longitudinal direction having their free ends terminating .adjacent each other, a band having one end thereof extending around said pocket and having an opening provided in its opposite end for receiving one of the said tongues, a cylindrical block for inclosing said pocket and for holding one end of the band thereto, and the inlet end of said pocket being less in height than the remaining portions of the pocket for the purpose set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH J ALBERT, Sn.

Witnesses A. J. MANLEY, P. LoRrrELLE.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

